The next evening, before it was completely dark, we set out on the march.

Although the superiors did not say the destination of the march, the soldiers were no strangers to the road near the Yizheng fǔ, and watching the troops advance along the Yizheng fǔ corridor, they also knew that the target was Seoul.

"This time, I'm afraid we'll have a chance to take a shower in the presidential palace again!" Zhao Yongxin trotted and said with great interest: "I haven't taken a bath for more than a month, and my whole body is itchy and uncomfortable!" "Oh, it's itchy hands!"

"What are you talking about? What itchy hands don't itch? ”

"Not yet?. Xiao Shandong quipped: "Last time, Company Commander Zhao 'touched' a bottle when he entered the presidential palace, foreign wine came out, and there was a thing called a lighter, this time I'm afraid I have to prepare a bag to go in!" ”

"What 'touch', 'touch', I say like a thief!" Zhao Yongxin replied unconvinced: "That's called Na, do you know?" Later, they all contributed to it, didn't they? ”

"What? You've ever been to the presidential palace, huh? The new recruits couldn't help but ask enviously.

"Isn't that?" The veterans who had participated in the third battle replied excitedly: "That house is called big!" It's enough for a soldier to live in, it's full of treasures, and we've taken a bath in it! There is an iron pipe there which is also called strange, our snot will be frozen into ice, and the iron pipe will flow out of the hot water, do you think it's strange? ”

"And this," the soldiers were curious when they heard this.

"Why not?" The veterans exclaimed, exaggeratedly: "There is everything in it, food, clothing, and use, just like where the gods live." If you don't believe it, this time we'll go into Seoul again and take you to open your eyes! ”

"Okay," the reinforcements all wanted to see it when they heard that there was such a good place, but I was the only one who shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The Usu army was held back by Camp Gloucester for a full hour, which was enough time for the American army to build a new line of defense along the Han River. Especially in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, Li Qiwei knows very well that Seoul is not only a strategic place in the military, but also a city that cannot be easily abandoned politically.

The first fall of Seoul can be explained by the fact that the South Korean army was unprepared and was taken by surprise by the Korean People's Army; The second fall of Seoul can be explained as the fact that the United *** was unprepared and was taken by surprise by the volunteers. If Seoul is captured again for the third time. Then there is no excuse

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Moreover, the people of South Korea and even the US Congress will have doubts about the combat effectiveness of the United States, and the military spirit of the United States will be shaken as a result.

Therefore, Ridgway and Van Vliet were determined to defend Seoul from the very beginning, and they arranged for the most combat-effective British brigade to guard the area around Yizheng Fǔ and also went out of this intention. It turns out that this arrangement is also very effective. The British held the "gate" of Seoul for three days, buying time for the United Nations to devote a large number of troops and build strong defenses in Seoul

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It should be said that at this point in the battle, the strategic goal of "annihilating several divisions of the US army" originally formulated in the Fifth Campaign has failed. The U.S. troops in front of us have relied on their advanced equipment to build a solid defensive line, which has become an immovable bone.

If the Fifth Campaign ended at this time, then the Volunteer Army could still be regarded as a victory, after all, the battle line had advanced dozens of kilometers to the south, and it also smashed the enemy's plan to land behind our flank and expose our army to the enemy on both sides.

However, at this time, a fighter plane that was strikingly similar to the fourth battle appeared: because our army's initial strategic goal was to annihilate several US divisions, it threw its main force on the Western Front to pursue and attack the US troops, causing the US troops to retreat several dozen kilometers all the way. However, the puppet army on the eastern front retreated very slowly because the opponent was the 3rd and 3rd Army Corps of the People's Army, which was not strong in combat effectiveness, so the puppet army defense line on the eastern front formed a salient and put their flank in front of the volunteers.

The disaster of the puppet army, and at the same time the disaster of the volunteer army, followed. At the same time that the volunteer army 'inserted' into the enemy formation and defeated the puppet army. also put their own flanks *** in front of the US military"

"Deputy Company Commander Cui, what are you thinking? At this time, Zhao Yongxin, who was running beside him, couldn't help asking: "I always feel that you are preoccupied, what's the matter?" Say it and let's talk about it together."

"Well, nothing!" I replied casually, but my brow furrowed even deeper.

What troubled me was that I knew that the volunteer soldiers were going to suffer heavy losses, but I was powerless to stop them, so I could only let them develop. And there is no way to tell my comrades-in-arms about these thoughts, and even if they do, they will not have any effect, but may be killed. Because in order to achieve this strategic goal shift. The Volunteer Army was to organize a feint attack on the front line of Seoul. Then secretly transferred the main forces to the Eastern Front.

I know it in modern sources. If I tell it, I will be shot as a spy by the organization, and at worst, the entire strategic intention of our army will be detected by the joint ***, and then the corresponding combat plan will be formulated."

A strange cry of an airplane swept over our heads, and then a flare emitted a pale cold light was fired, and the soldiers hurriedly hid into the grass on the side of the road.

Only then did we notice the pools of blood on the highway and the volunteer soldiers on the side of the road who had not been found by the containment team. They were supposed to die under the bombardment of enemy aircraft and artillery fire. The decision to let the Trumpets Regiment set out ahead of the Wang army was correct, and if it was a whole army marching now, the probability of being discovered by the enemy would be much greater. And once the enemy's reconnaissance planes discover the clues of a large force of our army, then the shells will soon be overwhelming, followed by the bombing of aircraft.

The closer they got to Seoul, the louder the guns became, and the more the soldiers felt that something was wrong. Not to mention the strange whistling of the planes in the sky, the corpses on the ground also tripped the soldiers from time to time, and occasionally kicked some of the limbs that had been blown off.

There was a disgusting smell of burnt fire in the air, which was supposed to be the masterpiece of the U.S. military's gasoline bombs. The feet are all soft and soft, and when I look at the corpses all over the ground, the liberation shoes step on the road and make a "horn and horn sound", which I originally thought was half-melted water. It was only later that I found out that it was all blood."

Although our recruits have fought a few battles. But where had I ever seen such a scene, the sound of them vomiting was immediately heard next to him.

Van Vliet *** amount! I can't help but secretly hate in my heart, the Dongdoucheon Highway is the only road leading from Yizheng to Seoul, and if the large army of volunteers wants to reach Seoul quickly, they can only take this road, and what the US military needs to do seems to be to send a large number of reconnaissance planes, and then fire a large number of shells according to the reports of the reconnaissance planes.

Since entering the DPRK, the volunteers have abided by an order to sacrifice the small self to protect the big self, that is, once someone does not wear camouflage when the enemy reconnaissance plane comes or does some actions that may be discovered by the enemy plane, then he must stay where he is and not move and is not allowed to follow the large army to avoid the whereabouts of the large army, otherwise the superior has the right to kill him.

This method was effective for a long time, because in the past, US reconnaissance planes were often unwilling to 'waste' artillery shells on one or two volunteers, but since Van Vliet became the commander of the Eighth Army, it has been different, and now only one or two fighters will also attract large-scale artillery bombardment from the enemy. No matter how well the volunteers are hidden, it will not help

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In the second half of the night, we finally arrived on the outskirts of Seoul, and what we saw didn't just startle the new recruits. Even those of us veterans who had fought four battles were stunned.

Gunfire rang out, and corpses and blood were everywhere. This should be a river crossing point in the upper reaches of Seoul, where tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers are busy, and the sky is full of large and small flares for us to see the entire battlefield. Some of the soldiers were digging trenches, some were working in pairs to 'drill' and 'shoot' at the enemy planes flying in the sky with high-altitude machine guns, and many more soldiers lined up on the banks of the Han River to board wooden boats and attack the south bank of the Han River.

Under the light of the flares, we could see corpses and wooden blocks floating everywhere on the Han River, wooden boats slowly moving towards the opposite bank like leaves in the breeze, shells 'stirring' layers of water around them from time to time, and from time to time several wooden boats were torn to pieces and flew into the air, and then fell back into the water with the water column.

The enemy's planes also roared and 'fired' and dropped bombs at the wooden boats that had no air defense capability at all, and the rows of bullets easily cut the wooden boats in two, taking the lives of one soldier after another, and the water column 'stirred' by the bombs easily overturned the wooden boats of the volunteers, and ruthlessly knocked down the entire boatload of soldiers into the river water where ice was still floating. What was even more tragic was that the incendiary bombs dropped by enemy planes blew up a sea of fire in front of Banzaejiang, and the blood and flames dyed the entire Han River red.

And what I can't believe is that all this in front of me is just a feint, just to convince the opposing US military that our army's strategic intention is to capture Seoul. None of the attacking warriors knew this, and most of them did not know the true purpose of the attack until they were killed.

"Hurry up! Keep going". Commander Chu's orders were passed down by the soldiers one by one, and the team changed direction. Turn to the east!

"Why are you still walking?" Some of the fighters couldn't help muttering, "Aren't they all in Seoul?" ”

Only I know in my heart that the 63rd, 4th, and Li armies of the 19th Corps of the Volunteer Army and the 1st Army of the People's Army are responsible for the feint mission here. There were more than 100,000 troops in the feint attack alone, which was unprecedented in the history of our army.

Of course, veteran troops like my army, which had fought the first four battles in Korea, will be transferred to the Eastern Front to join the army that is mainly attacking the puppet army, because our troops have fought four battles in Korea, and their combat experience is richer than that of the troops who have just entered Korea, and the terrain is also more familiar than theirs.

The warriors were still whispering something. Unexpectedly, there was a fierce chopsticks in front for the soldiers to bite, and the soldiers understood what this meant, so they all bit the chopsticks and hurried silently in the night.

We soon walked into the forest under the guidance of several KPA guides, and the sound of gunfire became more and more intense, and the footprints and broken branches left by the volunteer soldiers were everywhere along the way. This made me realize that the Great Force was already ahead of us.

I have never been able to understand that the Volunteer Army, which secretly moved eastward in this battle, had a total of nearly 200,000 troops in two corps, and it was unimaginable for such a huge unit to walk more than 100 kilometers eastward without being discovered by the US military, which had advanced reconnaissance equipment. Now I realize that the transfer of such a team of eight is actually a mountain road. I remember that the last time I moved from Seoul to the Eastern Front to fight a counterattack in Hengcheng, it took only three days, but this time, in order to conceal my whereabouts, I had to hide it as soon as I heard the slightest sound of airplanes, so that it took five days to reach the destination of Guitun-ri.

If it were a normal five-day march, it would be nothing. But my whole body was injured, but I didn't take a few steps and I was about to lie down when I heard the sound of the plane, but it hurt so much that I really scolded my mother in my heart!

But luckily, I have one in my camp. The warrior knows some herbs. Along the way, I kept my mind and 'pumped' a lot of time. When I rested at dawn, I smashed it and put it on me, and it was a lot better in two days. It's just that I haven't taken a bath for a long time, and now I have given this injury 'medicine' a 'get', and my whole body is a sour smell, and my brother adds a little faint 'medicine' smell, even I can't stand it, but I smell it, and I slowly get used to it. Anyway, except for those supplementary soldiers, most of the volunteers haven't taken a shower for more than a month, and no one is the same.

When we came to the destination, there were already soldiers of the People's Army who dug a tunnel for us, and as soon as we arrived here, we were like stowaways and were hidden, and then look at the tunnel dug by the People's Army, which is really not comparable to the volunteer army who is good at civil engineering. Coupled with the rags of the volunteers, the dirty cotton jackets, and a kerosene lamp made of bamboo tubes, made us look like refugees living in a mountain 'hole'.

But something is better than nothing, after all, it is the strength of others 'spent', and the soldiers have no complaints, and the whole regiment has drilled into more than a dozen tunnels according to the company.

Hiding in the tunnel and 'rubbing' the wound that was still faintly painful, I thought to myself, the name of this place taken by the North Koreans is either what kind of 'hole', what is it, could it be that the ancestors of these guys have long known that there is a current war, implying that they all have to hide in the 'hole'?

Just as he was thinking about the pit, a few salutes suddenly came, and it seemed that this leader had come to a big official. Sure enough, after a while, an interpreter from the People's Army ran in and shouted in stiff Chinese: "Our regiment commander Jin Chuanchang has come to inspect, and the comrades stand up to greet him!" ”

As soon as they heard this, the soldiers couldn't help but be stunned, and they all stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, not understanding what was going on. Although there is an order from above, the ranks of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army are mutually recognized, that is to say, the commander of the Volunteer Army is also the head of the regiment in the People's Army, and the head of the People's Army is also the head of the Regiment in the Volunteer Army, but even the division commander in our Volunteer Army does not have such a style!

"It's all up to greet you!" Officer Tu Ze also looked suspicious, he seemed to be wondering why our army was so undisciplined.

I thought to myself that it was better to follow the customs, after all, we are still on their land, so I shouted two orders in a row:

"All stand up!"

"Stand upright

The fighters lined up in the pit and stood in a row!

After a while, an officer wearing horse trousers, stepping on boots, and a Tokarev pistol walked in with his hands behind his back.

Not to mention, the so-called people rely on clothes, he is really much more majestic than our volunteers, plus he is followed by two guards who are also wearing 'straight' military uniforms, and this time he compares the Poison Wish Army.

As soon as the commander of the People's Army walked into the mouth of the tunnel, I saw him frowning, and I couldn't help but laugh in my heart, thinking that I was also smoked by the smell of the volunteers, it seems that the commander of the People's Army is still very squeamish!

"Hello comrades". These were the first words he said when he walked in, and I noticed that he wanted to shake hands with us, but when he saw the dirty appearance of the volunteers, he retracted his hand.

"Comrades!" As the regiment commander spoke, he translated his words into Chinese: "On behalf of the Korean people, I thank you for extending a helping hand to the KPA, for participating in this just war, and for fighting together to drive our common enemy, US imperialism, out of Korea. Long live General Kim Il Sung! ”

I know that at this time, the soldiers should also shout "Long live the friendship between China and North Korea!" Long live General Kim Il Sung". But where have the fighters been trained like this, they still don't know what to say.

Jin Chang waited for a while and didn't see the soldiers shouting slogans, so he couldn't help but feel embarrassed, and then looked at the disheveled appearance of the volunteer soldiers, shook his head and teased in a disdainful tone: "Such an army can also fight? I think it's like our guerrillas! ”

The other KPA members also laughed cooperatively, and I became angry when I heard it. He bowed to Na Jin Chuan and replied in Korean: "Report to Commander Jin, you have all the way to the Yalu River!" We are not as good at war as you are! ”

"You!" Jin Chuanchang couldn't understand the meaning of my words, and he didn't expect me to speak Korean, so he couldn't help but feel bored, and only glared at me fiercely. Before leaving, he waved his fist in front of me and said, "Whether you can fight or not, you will know if you try it on the battlefield."

Try it, who's afraid of whom! Looking at the back of them leaving, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, the battle has been fought to this point, this Korean People's Army will still look down on our volunteers, what is this!